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Lot 219
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[SALOMON, William]. One Thousand and Twenty Fifth Avenue, New York. [New York: Privately published for W. Salomon, 1912].
Folio. 56 photogravure plates. Original half parchment and boards (some rubbing and soiling, a few pale stains on lower cover, a little wear to extremities, hinges starting).
FIRST EDITION of this privately published photographic record of 1020 Fifth Avenue, the palatial home of the banker William Salomon. It was auctioned at his death and demolished. The photogravures are after photographs by Lillian Baynes Griffin, wife of the American impressionist Walter Griffin.